In his sessions, César “Rumi” Ahumada uses ayahuasca as a therapeutic tool.
A 38-year-old woman died in the middle of a supposed detoxification treatment provided by a self-proclaimed shaman during a ritual in the commune of Pirque in the Metropolitan Region.
According to the records of the Investigative Police (PDI), the victim identified as Antonella Francisca Canales Villablancawent to the plot of shaman Caesar “Rumi” Ahumada, 54 years old, because he was with physical pains.
In that place, the subject would have offered him a “purge work” which consisted of ingesting liquid tobacco and vomiting it repeatedly.
After that, the woman decompensated so the shaman took her to the Cesfam of Pirque, where she was admitted deceased.
Meanwhile, César Ahumada, He was arrested and will be formalized this Monday for quasi-murder.
Who is the shaman of Pirque
César “Rumi” Ahumada, the director of the Manto Wasi therapeutic center in Chile that on Instagram is like Ayahuasca.cl.
In their supposed help sessions and as indicated by the center’s social networks, “use ayahuasca as a therapeutic tool in combination with psychotherapy for the treatment of various psychological conditions.
According to what they add on the platform, the self-proclaimed Shaman “has more than 20 years of experience in the ritual use of ayahuasca and other Amazonian plants and “He received his training through retreats and diets in the jungle.”
Another background information provided on the center’s website is that “Rumi” He faced a criminal trial in 2009 for drug possessiondue to the presence of DMT (dimethyltryptamine is a natural psychoactive compound found in variable amounts in countless plants and animals) in the ayahuasca used for its ceremonies.
“However, In this trial it was not only demonstrated that ayahuasca is not harmful to health and that the ayahuasca brew is not controlled. Furthermore, with the accumulation of information presented in the trial, the court became convinced that it is far from constituting a danger to public health,” the page says.